A look back into Team India's last five England tours

New Delhi: Team India will take on England in the first test from July 9 hoping this time they turn the tables around and perform better than the last time when the team received a comprehensive drubbing in the hands of the English players . Lets take a look on how India performed on the British soil in their last five tours.1990 :It was in 1990 that India toured England and it was in Manchester that the world for the first time saw a batting legend showing his signs of batting greatness. Sachin tendulkar scored his first century in test scoring a brilliant 119 not out. India had already won the One day series by a scoreline of 2-0 and were getting to face them in the longer format of the game. It was Graham Gooch's 333 and 123 which guided England to a 247 run win. That was enough to secure the series 1-0. A batting paradise at Manchester produced a great game, India finishing on 343 for 6 chasing 408. Mohammad Azharuddin his second successive hundred. At The Oval, India made England follow on, but David Gower, playing for his place on that winter's Ashes tour, made a brilliant 157 to save the match.The scoreline was Tests: England 1 India 0 Drawn 2ODIs: England 0 India 21996 :This tour had a bad start as India lost the one day series 2-0 and were completely outclassed by the England players. Mohammed Azharuddin who was leading his side was out of his touch as he scored just 42 runs in five test innings and the leadership issue. The Indian team found it hard to get adjusted to bitter cold in the cold English conditions India lost the first Test at Birmingham by eight wickets after their batting, with the exception of Tendulkar (122) failed to fire. But they bounced back at Lord's where they had the better of a draw, and a high-scoring draw at Nottingham was notable for hundreds from Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly on one side and Nasser Hussain and Mike Atherton on the other. The series will also be remembered for the infamous for a spat between Azharuddin and opener Navjot Singh Sidhu, with the latter eventually walking out of the tour as a result. After this tour as expected Mohammed Azharuddin was sacked from his position of Team India's captain. This series will be remembered because it was in this tour that India fans and cricket lovers got the first glimpse of the two cricketers who will be at the helm of Indian cricket for the next decade. The two cricketer were Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly . Sourav Ganguly who was making his test debut at Lords scored an impressive 131 runs. Tests: England 1 India 0 Drawn 2 ODIs: England 2 India 02002 :This was for the first time in recent time that both the teams were battling it out in a much more balanced manner.A see-saw four-Test series ended square. The test series was a hotly contested battle between both the sides with each side showing signs of dominance at some phase of the game. England got off to a solid start with a fairly comprehensive win at Lord's where their batting held firm after India's first-innings had let them down. The second Test at Trent Bridge was another high-scoring match, England making 617 (Michael Vaughan 197). The series came alive at Headingley when India amassed 628 for 8 - hundreds from Rahul Dravid, Tendulkar and Ganguly - and romped to an innings victory. The series decider at The Oval ended with a washed out last day, but the match had been decided by a perfect pitch as both sides passed 500. In the one-day NatWest series which preceded the Test, India won a remarkable final, scoring 326 for 8 to win with three balls to spare, and after slumping to 146 for 5. In the second test between both the sides at Trent Bridge Nottingham ,three players from both the teams made their test debut. Steve Harmison, Robert Key made their debut for England while Parthiv Patel ) made his test Test debut for team India. Tests: England 1 India 1 Drawn 2 ODIs: India 2 England 12007 : The tour which included three test and seven one day internationals was the first ful fledged series that team India won since 1986. It was a compelling victory in the second Test at Trent Bridge, and a large slice of luck in the first at Lord's, where bad weather swept in on the final day to thwart England's victory surge. The third Test was drawn on a featherbed at The Oval, in a match notable for Anil Kumble's maiden Test hundred, 17 years and 118 Tests after his debut at Old Trafford in 1990. The man of the series, however, was Zaheer Khan, whose deadly left-arm swing from around the wicket briefly invited comparisons with Wasim Akram in his pomp. Zaheer's finest hour was also England's lowest ebb - at Trent Bridge, where he took nine wickets in the match having been riled while batting by an apparent prank involving jelly beans on the pitch. England did, however, hit back with a 4-3 win in the seven-match ODI series that followed. Dimitri Mascarenhas's five sixes in an over from Yuvraj Singh was the highlight. It was in this series that Pataudi Trophy, a prize commissioned by the MCC to commemorate the 75th anniversary of India's Test debut, was competed for.Tests: England 0 India 1 ODIs: England 4 India 32011 : It was a disastrous tour for team India as it lost to the English team in a very bad way. Team India was whitewashed in all the formats of the game. They lost the test series 4-0 , the only T20 international match and also the One day international matches .England's climb to No. 1 was confirmed during this series, which became one-way traffic against an increasingly dispirited India side. It started competitively at Lord's, with a fantastic Test including a double-hundred for Kevin Pietersen which ranked among his finest innings as it started on a cloudy, bowler-friendly, first day. But India lost Zaheer Khan on that first day and England piled up a match-controlling total before the home side's quick bowlers, including a rejuvenated Stuart Broad, worked through India's strong line-up. Rahul Dravid became the first batsman in the side to have his name on the honours board with a fine century. Matt Prior's fantastic hundred steadied an England wobble and set a demanding chase, then, in front of a packed Monday crowd, on a pitch still good for batting, Broad, James Anderson, Chris Tremlett and Graeme Swann bowled as a pack to dismantle the visitors.India responded well at the start of the second Test at Trent Bridge, having England in trouble at 124 for 8, before valuable lower-order runs kept them in the game. Then, after India took a lead, Broad claimed a hat-trick in front of his home crowd. England's second innings was marshalled by Ian Bell, promoted to No. 3 after an injury to Jonathan Trott, and he scored a majestic hundred but the innings was tinged by controversy. On the stroke of tea on the third day Bell thought he'd struck a boundary and that the ball was dead, but the fielder had stopped it and as Bell wandered off for the break he was run out. Initially the decision stood but during the interval, after discussions between both teams, MS Dhoni reversed his appeal. It's doubtful the course of the match was altered and on the fourth day Tim Bresnan took his first five-wicket haul in Tests to secure a win.From there on, India were broken. Alastair Cook piled up a monumental 294 at Edgbaston, in a crushing innings victory that secured England the No. 1 Test ranking, then at The Oval there was a double hundred for Bell and another dazzling show from Pietersen. Dravid, in what was a magnificent series, responded to being asked to open by carrying his bat for 146 but India still followed on. The final day was shaping to be about Sachin Tendulkar as he approached his 100th international hundred but on 91 he was given lbw to Bresnan. From there India collapsed. Again.Tests: England 4 India 0T20: EnglandODIs: England 4: India

A look back into Team India's last five England tours

New Delhi: Team India will take on England in the first test from July 9 hoping this time they turn the tables around and perform better than the last time when the team received a

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